...or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,...

...all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway fonm. The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay, Chained on the burning lake. He scarce had ceased,...

...Milton, which are not less beautiful, perhaps, as poetry, that the epithet "scaly rind" is incorrect: — "Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot...some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor hi his scaly rind, Moors by his side, under the lee, while night Invests the sea and wished morn delays."...

...That sca-bcast Leviathan, which God, of all his works, Crcated hugest, that swim the occan strcam : Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as scamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind...

...edition unrectifkd, in which the introduction of a single letter ha; altered the sense and imagery. " Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor, in his scaly rind,...

...1. And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns And wield their little tridents Comus, 27. - slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff. PL, l. 204. Ye who are longing to be rid Of fable, though to truth subservient, hear The little sprinkling...

...that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugeat, that swim the ocean-stream ; ' Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot...while night Invests the sea and wished morn delays.' Milton's poetic freedoms may remind us that we are not to expect in Hebrew, more than in any other...

...the ocean stream ; Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With...side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished-for morn delays." Commentators have been divided in opinion whether Milton supposed the leviathan...

...the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast 90*1 Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 305 With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his...while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the Archfiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence...

...in "Grandfather's Dream," as " a point of seeming land," plays the part of Milton's Leviathan, who " haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming tome island, oft as seamen tell, "With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by hi* side." The " Point...